In this matriarchal world of immortal cultivation, women are tall and strong, while men are delicate and short.
Worldbuilding: This is a matriarchal cultivation world where heartbeats determine lifespan and the rhythm of the heart determines one’s path. Heaven grants every living being a fixed number of heartbeats for their lifetime.
Cultivators train their hearts to remain steady, lengthening the interval between each beat.
The faster the heart beats, the sooner one’s lifespan burns away.
The slower the heart beats and the longer the interval, the calmer the heart, the deeper one’s path, the longer one’s life, and the greater one’s strength.
Su Ruan, a modern male college student, transmigrates into a novel as the youngest son of the wealthy Su family.
Thanks to his elder sister’s connections in the sect, his family manages to pull strings and get him admitted, despite his extremely fast heartbeat and paltry cultivation.
Before transmigrating, Su Ruan had read the novel. He knows that his original body has a special constitution: a heaven-given spiritual body. He doesn’t need to toil at cultivation. As long as he practices heart-and-breath cultivation with a highly skilled woman, they can both greatly increase their power.
He was attracted to women in his previous life, so he accepts his transmigration to this world without much trouble. But his cultivation is so low that he won’t live long, so he plans to cling to the heroine’s coattails.
The heroine, Ling Zhao, is the senior disciple of the Lingxin Sect and the greatest prodigy of her generation, a classic female-led fantasy heroine in a matriarchal cultivation novel.
With no parents and no family to rely on, Ling Zhao is an orphan who fought her way to the top of the sect on her own.
Her heart is as steady as iron, her heartbeat exceptionally slow, and her cultivation defies the heavens. All she wants is to grow stronger.
She is aloof and taciturn, a tough, straight-as-an-arrow woman who knows nothing of romance and cares only about strength. She is fiercely possessive of Su Ruan,
after seeing powerful women surrounded by beautiful men,
she decides she must have the prettiest, most delicate one of all by her side!
